CVE•Published 2024-10-16•1 article on news•7 live references•NVD data

CVE-2016-15041

Vulnerability data via CVEDB (Shodan)

CVSS v3.1

7.2

HIGH

EPSS percentile

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 35% of all CVEs

Description

The MainWP Dashboard – The Private WordPress Manager for Multiple Website Maintenance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘mwp_setup_purchase_username’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 3.1.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Timeline

Published 2024-10-16

External references

NVD MITRE Exploit-DB GitHub PoC Sploitus trickest/cve VulnCheck

Search for exposed instances

Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).

Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts

vuln:CVE-2016-15041

Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.

Shodan · WP plugin path

http.html:"/wp-content/plugins/mainwp-dashboard/"

Matches any site loading the "mainwp-dashboard" plugin — doesn't rely on Shodan's vuln tag.

Shodan · product

product:"Mainwp Mainwp Dashboard"

All exposed Mainwp Mainwp Dashboard instances — cross-reference with the CVE's affected-version range.

Shodan · banner/body mention

http.html:"Mainwp Dashboard"

HTTP body or banner mentions "Mainwp Dashboard" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.